Image of a pen on movie film. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Bersak. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Bernd Widdig
MIT Course Number
21G.056
As Taught In
Fall 2003
Level
Undergraduate
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Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is an invitation to German film-making since the end of the Second World War. We investigate how German cinema captured the atmosphere of the immediate post-war years and discuss extensively major works of the "New German Cinema" of the Sixties and Seventies. We also look at examples of East Germany's film production and finally observe the very different roads German cinema has been taking from the 1990's into the present.